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Theobalds Park College

A Grade II* Listed Building in Goffs Oak, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6892 / 51°41'21"N

Longitude: -0.0557 / 0°3'20"W

OS Eastings: 534492

OS Northings: 200724

OS Grid: TL344007

Mapcode National: GBR HY.2MP

Mapcode Global: VHGQ1.ZSDY

Plus Code: 9C3XMWQV+MP

Entry Name: Theobalds Park College

Listing Date: 11 June 1954

Last Amended: 8 November 1983

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1348341

English Heritage Legacy ID: 157263

Also known as: Theobalds Palace
Theobalds Park Hotel

ID on this website: 101348341

Location: Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, EN7

County: Hertfordshire

District: Broxbourne

Electoral Ward/Division: Goffs Oak

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Traditional County: Hertfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire

Church of England Parish: Cheshunt

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

Tagged with: Palace Ruins Convention centre Prodigy house Country house hotel

Description


1. 5251 CHESHUNT BULLS CROSS RIDE (north east side) Waltham Cross Theobalds Park College (formerly listed as Middlesex County Council Secondary School TL 30SW : 4/41 11.6.54 (Formerly Theobalds Park Hotel)

II*

2. 1763 for George Prescott, extended N and S by the Meux family in early and late C19. Red brick, Portland stone dressings, slate roofs. 3 storeys. 5-window W entrance front with slightly projecting pedimented centre having balustraded 1-storey portico and 1st floor Venetian windows. Modillioned cornice, parapet. Forward-curving 1 storey colonades to small outer wings with brick modillioned cornices and pediments facing courtyard. E garden elevation with full height canted window bay and Gd floor and 1st floor flanking Venetian windows. Balustraded parapet and bracketed cornice continuous with N and S, 4-window, early C19 additions, which have large Gd floor Venetian windows with paired Greek Ionic columns. Further 4-window late C19 extensions on N with similar details; S end has 5-stage French Renaissance style square tower with banded stone courses, 4th and 5th floors with applied pilasters and shell headed windows. Terracotta frieze and stone balustrading.

Interior has good entrance hall on W side, divided by Venetian screens with Adam style detail. Grotesque painted central ceiling, semicircular staircase on N. E centre room with very gocd, reused, early-C17 arcaded panelling with Corinthian half columns, foliate ornament and figured console brackets. N room on E front has rich early-C19 deep coffered-octagonal plan ceiling. (Pevrsner (1977)).

Listing NGR: TL3449200724

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